Growing potatoes in hay?

This is are first seroius garden here, we have had garden at our other house but not much room so we just mostly grew things like tomatoes and green beans. So we dicided to try potatoes this year. So we laid them on the ground and then covered them with hay and have been covering every time the leaves peak through. Are we doing this right? And where are the tpotatoes going to be? In the ground or in the hay?

You're doing it right. When the plants touch across the row and shade the ground you can stop adding hay. The potatoes will be in the ground but under just a few inches of soil. When we grow them this way we have no potato beetle problems, either. It's a win-win-win situation: better yield, less work, less bugs.

This is are first seroius garden here, we have had garden at our other house but not much room so we just mostly grew things like tomatoes and green beans. So we dicided to try potatoes this year. So we laid them on the ground and then covered them with hay and have been covering every time the leaves peak through. Are we doing this right? And where are the tpotatoes going to be? In the ground or in the hay?

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All my potato's were above the ground, just under the hay. I put my seed potato on the dirt--mashed it down but not covered with dirt---added several inches of loose hay but enough that you could not see any dirt. When the potato tops popped through I added a few more inches then quit adding hay----Waited a few weeks--started lifting the hay and stealing a few small potato's-------by the time the tops started dying. I had stole/eat all of them----LOL--Quess I need to plant alot more next year. Randy